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Welcome to the Application Performance Management Blog, where you can read the perspectives from APM experts. This Blog provides insights into the Application Performance Management solution, as well as technical details about specific IBM products.

While running the Tivoli Common Report Disk Utilization reports for UNIX OS Agent, the report fails with the error message: 'SQL0206N "Disk_DV.LAT_Mount_Point_U" is not valid At first, please have a look into your IBM Tivoli Monitoring Warehouse if the table view 'Disk_DV' exits. If that is the case, then it is a know issue and solved in APAR IV99022 The fix for this problem is identified under... [More]

One of the frequently asked questions from ITM V6.3 (IBM Tivoli Monitoring) user community is about reports functionality in APM V8. The objective of this blog entry is to answer these questions and provide references where users can get more information on this topic. Objective: We will discuss the following questions in this blog entry: 1) Does APM provide long term history collection for agent data? 2) Does APM have views and reports similar to the historical views of TEP and TCR reports? 3) Can we use ITM TCR reports to generate reports for... [More]

Hi and Welcome to the IBM Monitoring Academy Newsletter March Edition In these monthly newsletters we are aiming to share with you our high value content, recent updates and any information you might have missed. It will all be hosted here with external links within the blog so please have a read. Newsletter Video If you prefer to watch and listen rather than read, we also have a video version of the Newsletter which can be found at the link below on our Youtube Channel. Direct YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/PEOEfUtIwCY Top... [More]

This blog will help you understand the cause of the AAA-SYS-0001 Error received while accessing the Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) portal. The blog will also help you get past the error. This issue can occur on any release of JazzSM (TCR) mainly when LDAP is used and the LDAP users access the TCR portal. You will see the following symptom once you login to DASH and click the TCR icon: This issue occurs because the "user" and "group" with the same names exist in LDAP. Example: username = test belongs to group name = test... [More]

Hello folks, So this time we're going to take a look at TCR/Jazz and Single Sign-On (SSO). Recently I had a PMR from a customer who had two JazzSM servers on two discrete servers, both with TCR installed, both configured to use one central Content Store. The issue they were seeing was that when they logged into their first server and then navigated into the Common Reporting page, it worked just fine and they were automatically logged in, no problems there. However, on the second install, they had another login... [More]

This blog will explain the steps needed to export content store from TCR 2.X to TCR 3.X. There are several occasions, when reporting environments are transitioned. In this example, the QS Report for test user have been migrated. Confirm the required report (QS Report) is part of My Folders for test user Click Launch -> Administration Click on Configuration tab Click on Content Administration Click the “Export” icon Enter the Name for your backup and choose the options listed in the following steps In above step... [More]

One of the common ways to get ITCAM for Application Diagnostics (WAS agent) Reports is to use the Managing Server Performance & Analysis feature. (See my earlier blog documented here .) However, you may not have installed the Managing Server and only have the ITM TEMS/TEPS infrastructure installed. If you don't have the MS installed and still wish to get some ITCAM-related reports to see your monitored data, then you may have to install/use Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) to see these History-based Reports. The TCR software is IBM... [More]

Your ITCAM server has been doing a good job of monitoring your WebSphere or J2EE (WebLogic / JBoss / Tomcat) servers. You now want to get some Reports showing the monitored data. You basically have two types of Reports: Application Reports and Server Resource/Capacity-type Reports under the Performance Analysis menu of the Managing Server. Some tips to keep in mind before using these Reporting menus: Increase Monitoring Level / Sampling Rate to get more data: To get some good amount of Reporting data, you will first need to populate the... [More]

Quickly pull all the information you need on IBM C&SI software Vs the supported operating systems. Easy way to make sure you always have the latest information at your fingertips in just a few clicks. Its that time again..you are planning an upgrade, or audit time and you need to find out the supported platforms for your IBM software to run on. This method is a very quick and easy way to generate a single report that displays all the combinations of supported software Vs supported operating system (OS). This... [More]

Always wanted to know what ITM agents are supported on each different OS flavour and level? This is your one stop shop. I have created dynamically updating reports, so the information in them will always be up-to-date and relevant the moment you open it. These links are a great help when checking environments or planing for upgrades etc. These reports have been created in the IBM software product compatibility reports (Clarity). The aim here is to give you the... [More]

What's supported , what's not? Find yourself wondering this, here you can find the answers in one neat place..... Software product compatibility reports contain all supported versions of IBM Software and related Operating Systems. Here you will discover how easy it is to obtain this info.........(step-by-step) Click on below link that takes you to home page for the reports... http://www-969.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity/index.html On... [More]

The following new video demonstrations of Tivoli Common Reporting are posted on the Tivoli Media Gallery of ITCAM for Microsoft Applications: Import a Cognos report package and view a sample report in the package Create a custom report by using the Query Studio Explore some of the Report Studio features To view these video demonstrations, access the following link: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Composite%20Application%20Manager/page/Other%20videos

Can't generate a report for 2013? If you haven't heard, a flash went out earlier this year with details about how to correct this issue. The flash can be found at: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21621694

We published a new set of Tivoli Common Reports for the WebSphere agent from ITCAM for AD (and ITCAM for Applications). A number of predefined reports are included in this package: Application Request Performance DB Connection Pools EJB Performance GC Usage of Application Server JVM Usage of Application Server Request Performance for an Application Servlet-JSP Performance for an Application Threadpools Web Application Performance Application Request Performance for Clusters JVM and GC Usage for Clusters The prerequisites for this package are... [More]